The British Essayists;: SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 47
עמוד 3
... considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans , in the poetry , as much as in the subject to which it was ...
... considering them as inspired writers , they have transmitted to us many hymns and divine odes , which excel those that are delivered down to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans , in the poetry , as much as in the subject to which it was ...
עמוד 17
... considers not only an ample fortune , but even the very necessaries of life , his pretence to food itself , at the mercy of his creditors , he cannot but look upon himself in the state of the dead , with his case thus much worse , that ...
... considers not only an ample fortune , but even the very necessaries of life , his pretence to food itself , at the mercy of his creditors , he cannot but look upon himself in the state of the dead , with his case thus much worse , that ...
עמוד 18
... consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a citizen . Such would have it to say to their own souls , if possible , that they were merciful when they could have de- stroyed , rather than when it was in their power to have ...
... consider what it is to have at their mercy the life of a citizen . Such would have it to say to their own souls , if possible , that they were merciful when they could have de- stroyed , rather than when it was in their power to have ...
עמוד 23
... considers that every piece of news I send him is a word in his ear , and lets him into a secret . In Having given you a sketch of this project , I shall , in the next place , suggest to you another for a monthly pamphlet , which I shall ...
... considers that every piece of news I send him is a word in his ear , and lets him into a secret . In Having given you a sketch of this project , I shall , in the next place , suggest to you another for a monthly pamphlet , which I shall ...
עמוד 26
... consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot ...
... consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only dwell upon one reflexion , which I cannot ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquainted agreeable appear beauty consider conversation countenance daugh delight desire Dictamnus discourse divine dreams dress duke of Bavaria duke of Burgundy Eastcourt entertained epigram excellent eyes faith favour folly fortune gentleman give greatest hand happy head heard heart honest honour hope human humble servant humour husband imagination kind lady learning letter live look mankind manner marriage married matter ment merit mind mirth modesty Mohair nature never obliged observed occasion pain paper particular pass passion person Pharamond pleased pleasure Plutarch Plutus pretty racter reason Rechteren reflexion religion Rhynsault Salic law Samson Agonistes satisfaction Sebastian of Portugal seems sense SEPT sir Robert Viner sorrow soul SPECTATOR tell temper thing thou thought tion told town Tunbridge VIRG virtue whole wife woman women word write young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 60 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
עמוד 171 - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
עמוד 60 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
עמוד 60 - There is neither speech nor language : but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world.
עמוד 171 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
עמוד 53 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
עמוד 88 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
עמוד 48 - Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know'st mine: Neither our own but...
עמוד 2 - If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope for.
עמוד 59 - The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs.